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hey guys this is Adam Lane with pocketnow.com and I'm going to show you how to sync Windows Phone 7 without look because guess what it doesn't sink without look let's check it out so first off you remember Windows Mobile Device Center and ActiveSync on the desktop for syncing the old classic windows mobile devices here we have Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows 7 and you know you could go in here and you could choose to sync your contacts or get all of this cool stuff and it would sink up with Outlook sometimes a lot of people there's a lot of horror stories about people getting you know duplicates or weird errors and a lot of people really hated it and just kind of wished it would die so with Windows Phone 7 it is dead that's all gone you don't get active sync on the desktop anymore you sink with Zune instead but guess what the Zune only syncs your music your videos your pictures and your apps that's all you get with the zoom syncing so you're probably thinking well wait a second what about my outlook stuff I got all these contacts and all this calendar appointments all those are an out look at it how do you sync those with Windows Phone 7 well turns out Windows Phone 7 only syncs with Exchange ActiveSync over-the-air to a server on the internet so you've got to either get yourself an exchange server or you can get a nice free Windows Live Hotmail account so if we can do one of those over here so this is a free Windows Live Hotmail account it's got calendar and contacts and email and all that's in this web-based thing but you still need to get your Outlook stuff in there so this is what you need this is the outlook hotmail connector you can download this there is a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version so pick the one you like or you need for your version and you download it right here and then after you install that you are going to have in Outlook a new option when you add an account so let's check it out over here now over here you see other and you see marks of Outlook hotmail connector and this is where you're going to put your information in email address password and that's going to set it up and I already did mine so here I am in Outlook this over here those are my personal folders that are on my hard drive it's not syncing with exchange or anything those are just you know static on the hard drive and there's my calendar there's contacts another and I already set up my hotmail account which is right here and that creates a whole other set of folders so we have another calendar for my hotmail and another set of contacts for Mohammed map so if I want to get my calendar and contacts into my Windows Live Hotmail account it's very easy I'll just go over here and then I'll click view change it to list so that gives me all of my calendar appointments and I can just select all or if I don't want to do that I can do them one at a time and I will just cut if I hold down control key it'll copy it to hotmail whereas if I just drag it it'll move it into the hotmail calendar and this should be in there now there it is okay and since Windows Phone 7 little sync with your hotmail Windows Live account this is how you get your calendar and contacts into Windows Phone 7 for syncing and this will stay here so whenever you want to add items it's just as easy as you wouldn't Outlook there's a new appointment no problem everything is the same okay same with contacts just drag and drop nope put it into the right folder and that's it not bad pretty easy not too painful and that's your free easy solution for syncing your contacts and calendar an email with the Windows Phone 7 hope that helps that's it for now